From: Tillmann Heidsieck Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:07:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: staging: wlan-ng fix buffer overflow in firmware handling X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ccb726c728cb414d9abc65a11a6453e75204503;p=linux-beck.git staging: wlan-ng fix buffer overflow in firmware handling We test for an END marker in the element beyond the current one, this effectively limits the size of the array to be HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX/2 - 1 not HFA384x_PDR_END_OF_PDA/2. This patch fixes a possible buffer overflow in case there was no END marker. Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c index fe36613589ae..d357b7ecb1fc 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda) pda->nrec = 0; curroff = 0; - while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2) && + while (curroff < (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1) && le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff + 1]) != HFA384x_PDR_END_OF_PDA) { pda->rec[pda->nrec] = (hfa384x_pdrec_t *) &(pda16[curroff]); @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static int mkpdrlist(struct pda *pda) curroff += le16_to_cpu(pda16[curroff]) + 1; } - if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2)) { + if (curroff >= (HFA384x_PDA_LEN_MAX / 2 - 1)) { pr_err("no end record found or invalid lengths in PDR data, exiting. %x %d\n", curroff, pda->nrec); return 1;